> have realized that the term "bot" is being used in a very nonstandard manner. For some additional context, Discord bots aren't that far off from IRC bots. Y

> have realized that the term "bot" is being used in a very nonstandard manner. For some additional context, Discord bots aren't that far off from IRC bots. You invite a bot to your server, you give the permissions and channel access you want it to have, and it receives various events over the web gateway such as "Message Received" of which the bot developer can use to build elaborate command systems and various other features. Prior to the must-be-verified limit of 100 guilds, Discord had a serious issue with scam bots that would mass-message users promising free bitcoin or "insert free thing here", and usually one the "steps" was adding the bot to an additional guild. This resulted in the bot quickly cascading past 100 guilds within a matter of hours before Discord support had even noticed the problem. Once joined to the additional guild, it would scrape as much of the server content as it could and usually dump it on some sort of "discord user tracker" platform. On top of preventing joins past 100 guilds, verification is also required for some sensitive capabilities such as querying the entire member list.